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So today I just sold Batman Arkham Knight after struggling to get in to it.  I'd only previously played Arkham Asylum which I loved but Arkham Knight just didn't click with me.  I hated the driving mechanics right off the bat, didn't care much for the story and the open world just lacked personality for me.  I know it rated well and I know millions love it.

But its not the first time this gen I've picked up a game and then sold it on within a week because I just couldn't get in to it even though I know they are supposed to be good games.  It happened first with me with Shadow Of Mordor, which I just found really boring and then a few months after the same happened with Dragon Age.  I wanted to like DA, but I couldn't get a foothold in the story whatsoever.  Having not played the last gen ones, dialogue was being thrown at me left right and centre and I didn't have a clue what anyone was going on about.

Anyone else struggled with a game that is so universally praised but it just doesn't click for one reason or another.  Thing is, it's not like I don't even like the genres these games belong to.  I mean, the Witcher 3 has grabbed me (similar I guess to DA in terms of gameplay), I loved AC Black Flag (similar to Mordor?) and Batman in reality isn't really that much different to Assassins Creed etc either.



PREDICTIONS FOR END OF 2015: (Made Jan 1st 2015)

PS4 - 34M - XB1 - 21m - WII U -12M

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The Witcher 3 is probably the most boring game i've played this generation. I'm still in Skellige since weeks and I just don't want to play it more.



What you are eperiencing is that hype+reviews does not = a fun game.

You are not alone. I liked the first Batman game but hated the franchise ever since they got heartbeat readers on all croonies. City, i dropped it when mr freeze showed up. Dropped the whole franchise there. Way too boring.
Dragon age, loved the first, the second was ok, this one is boring. Why? Cause they tried to shoehorn an F2P game in there and designed it as an MMO. It has such a slow startup that i havent managed the strength to even go through the first hinterlands area. Everyhing feels forced and uninteresting story wise.

Dont even get me started on the snoozefest that AC is...

A game i was surprised with and really enjoyed was Bound by flame. Reviews slammed it, but for little reason. It has a modest budget and its rough in some areas, but its a really fun and sweet looking game. Great soundtrack in particular. Only problem is that its short.



pretty much everything. Mario Kart 8 has been the only game of this generation thus far that i have thought was genuinely great.



Assassin's Creed IV. I got it free with gold a few hours ago, and it just doesn't resonate with me. Perhaps I should give the game another chance? AC always looks good at E3, but just doesn't sit well with me in person.



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IamAwsome said:
Assassin's Creed IV. I got it free with gold a few hours ago, and it just doesn't resonate with me. Perhaps I should give the game another chance? AC always looks good at E3, but just doesn't sit well with me in person.

Precisely, the game isn't great. Combat is very simple and everything feels very "samey", like if developers only had a year to make the game. Also, the mission design is very archaic. However, I don't think ACIV is an 8th gen game, because it also released on 360 and PS3. 



My bet with The_Liquid_Laser: I think the Switch won't surpass the PS2 as the best selling system of all time. If it does, I'll play a game of a list that The_Liquid_Laser will provide, I will have to play it for 50 hours or complete it, whatever comes first. 

Dragon Age Inquisition. Even though i put 40 hours into it the more i played the less interested i became.



FIT_Gamer said:
Dragon Age Inquisition. Even though i put 40 hours into it the more i played the less interested i became.


Dragon Age Inquis was quite repetitive...... and its missing the love, heart, art design of the original. the second game suffered from similar problems, boring action and repetitive in nature

what made the first Dragon Age so rad was the characters had tons of personality, the places and dungeons were well thought out- and the fights took tons of strategy in terms of using the hotkeys and certain attacks



AC Black Flag was the only AC game that I actually liked in fairness.

To be honest as well this gen so far, I've had the most fun with games that review as mediocre or don't even get that much coverage. Ive either played to completion or given a lot of time to games like Infamous, Rogue Legacy, Pure Pool, Final Fantasy Remaster, Lords Of The Fallen, Driveclub etc. Hell, I even platinumed Riptide GP2 the other day and absolutely loved it for the 10 hours or so it took me to complete it.

Have looked a few times actually at Bound By Flame. Is it good?

It was the same for me though in a lot of circumstances last gen too.  Some of the best games I played were the ones that all reviews told you not to.  Games like Nier, Deadly Premonition, Singularity, Kingdoms Of Amalur, Shadows Of The Damned all provided me with way more entertainment than reviews would suggest they should.



PREDICTIONS FOR END OF 2015: (Made Jan 1st 2015)

PS4 - 34M - XB1 - 21m - WII U -12M

I felt the same thing with shadow of mordor but at the same time, I didn't spend enough time on it to give a reasonable opinion about the game. I wanted to play other games first.